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kallasa

whitewash, calcify

كَلَّسَ

Word

Verb · Form II

Root

ك ل س

Forms

Present
يُكَلِّسُ

In the library

ثم تجفف بالشمس من بعد السقي أو تطبخ بالنار أو تصعد أو تكلس لاستخراح مائها أو ترابها.

The Muqaddimah, page 345 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ كَلَّسَيُكَلِّسُ—
she هِيَ كَلَّسَتتُكَلِّسُ—
they two (m.) هُما كَلَّسايُكَلِّسانِ—
they two (f.) هُما كَلَّسَتاتُكَلِّسانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ كَلَّسُوايُكَلِّسُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ كَلَّسْنَيُكَلِّسْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ كَلَّسْتَتُكَلِّسُكَلِّسْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ كَلَّسْتِتُكَلِّسِينَكَلِّسِي
you two أَنْتُما كَلَّسْتُماتُكَلِّسانِكَلِّسَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ كَلَّسْتُمتُكَلِّسُونَكَلِّسُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ كَلَّسْتُنَّتُكَلِّسْنَكَلِّسْنَ
I أَنا كَلَّسْتُأُكَلِّسُ—
we نَحْنُ كَلَّسْنانُكَلِّسُ—

From the same root

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 8 entries
  • كَلَسَ Form I Open entry
    : see 2.
  • كلّس Form II He plastered
    , inf. n. تَكْلِيسٌ, He plastered (طَرَّ) a building with كِلْس; as also ↓ كَلَسَ, inf. n. كَلْسٌ: he made smooth [with plaster]: when a thing is thickly plastered, it is termed مُقَرْمَدٌ. (TA.) See كِلْسٌ. ― -b2- As used by the alchemists, [He calcined a substance;] he dissolved a body so that it became like كِلْس. (TA.)
  • كِلْسٌ Quick time, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered tanks, or cisterns, and baths, &c
    (S, K) and by poetic licence. ↓ كِلِّسٌ (IJ) i. q. صَارُوجٌ [i. e. Quick time, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered tanks, or cisterns, and baths, &c.], (S, K.) or the like thereof, (TA,) with which one builds: (S, TA:) or that with which a wall, or the inside of a palace or the like, is plastered, resembling جِص [or gypsum], without baked bricks. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd, describing El-Hadr, a city between the Tigris and Euphrates, (TA,) " شَادَهُ مَرْمَرًا وَجَلَّلَهُ كِلْ سًا فَلِلطَّيْرِ فِى ذُرَاهُ وُكُورُ " [He raised it high, of marble, and covered it with quick time, and there were nests for the birds in its tops]: or, accord. to As, the right reading is وَخَلَّلَهُ كِلْسًا, with خ, meaning, and put صاروج into the interstices of its stones; and he used to laugh at him who related it in the former manner, with ج. (TA.) But see 2.
  • كِلِّسٌ Open entry
    : see كِلْسٌ.
  • كَلَّاسٌ Open entry
    : see مُكَلِّسٌ.
  • كَلَّاسَةٌ A time-kiln
    [ A time-kiln: so in the present day.]
  • كَيْلُوسٌ Chyle
    [Chyle; from the Greek χυλός;] a term applied by the physicians to the food when it is digested in the stomach before it departs thence and becomes blood; also called كَيْمُوسٌ. (L.) [But the latter word more properly signifies “ chyme, ” and in this sense is used by modern physicians.]
  • مُكَلِّسٌ A lime-burner
    A lime-burner; (Golius, on the authority of Meyd;) [as also ↓ كَلَّاسٌ: or this latter signifies a seller of quick lime.]

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